Kenya: Lodwar Clinic and Turkana Drought Relief and Mobile Medical Outreach Project

Nutrition Services

Assessing Needs

Many women and children have benefited from the outreaches through nutrition services and Vitamin A supplementation. Using MUAC (mid-upper arm circumference), clients were categorized as having normal nutritional status or being severely or moderately malnourished. A total of 1,785 children and pregnant and lactating mothers benefited from nutritional support.

A total of 652 children and pregnant and lactating mothers received Vitamin A supplementation.

Immunization Activities

Building Immunity in Children

The project has also enabled communities in remote areas to access vaccination as a way of improving the immunity of our children. During this reporting period, we have been able to fully immunize 227 children. As a sub-county, we have noted a remarkable improvement in FIC achievements. Additionally, other children have benefited from various immunization antigens like OPV3, Penta 1, Penta 3, and Measles 3.

Deworming Services

Improved Outreach

A total of 674 clients received deworming services. This is a boost in our performance, given that in the previous quarter as a sub-county we had performed dismally in this indicator. With our continued partnership, we anticipate tremendous improvements as we reach more people in remote areas.

Antenatal Services

Serving the Disadvantaged

In the effort to promote quality services for pregnant women, reduce maternal mortality rates, and improve pregnancy outcomes, outreaches to disadvantaged communities play a key role. During this reporting period, we managed to provide antenatal services to 581 pregnant women. Many women received a tetanus toxoid vaccination, IFAS, and Vitamin A supplementation. This is an indicator that we are closely monitoring, especially 4th ANC coverage, with the goal of improving skilled deliveries performance and eventually a reduction in maternal mortality rates.

General Treatment

Reducing Mortality Rates

One of the key activities within this project is management of minor illnesses and other conditions affecting the target population. The county government has been supportive in terms of* providing essential drugs to enable us to offer treatment for conditions like malaria, respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections, skin conditions, and eye infections*. This has contributed to a reduction in mortality caused by these conditions. During this reporting period, we were able to offer treatment to 1,139 clients, of which 443 were children and 696 were adults.

Community Talks

Health Promotion and Education

During each outreach activity, our dedicated staff begins by giving health talks to the target population. This empowers the community with quality knowledge on how to protect themselves from a number of health-related conditions. During this reporting period, the community was educated on a number of topics, including MNH, immunization, public and environmental health, and HIV and other STIs. All talks are aimed at curbing the spread of health-related conditions by putting in place adequate control measures to mitigate these. We managed to reach a total of 1,531 individuals with such messages during this reporting period.